philippine state formation mechanics - part 2

8/7/2019 Philippine State Formation Mechanics - Part 2

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Philippine State Formation Mechanics

Prospects of Social Network Analysis in

Philippine Politics

POLSC 251: Seminar in Philippine Political Institutions

http://olimould.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/network-diagram-1.jp


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Overview

Introduction

Social Network Analysis Development and Concepts

Political Networks The Structural Perspective

Utilizing Social Network Analysis in Philippine

Political Analysis Philippine State Formation

Agpalos Pangulo Regime & Sidels Bossism

Prospects of Social Network Analysis

Conclusion


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All political analysts are

unwitting structuralists, because they define

social powerin relational terms

(Knoke, 1990)

Power is a relationship of one social actor to

another.

It is specific to a situation.


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Structural Perspective

Power as combinations of two dimensions:

Influence - Actor intentionally transmits information to

another that alters the latters actions from what wouldhave occurred without that information.

Domination - One actor controls the behavior of another

actor by offering or withholding some benefit or harm.

Basic units of any complex political system are notindividuals but positions or roles occupied by social

actors and the relations or connections between

these positions.


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Social structure - stable order or pattern of social

relations among positions.

Primary analytic focus is on the relational connections as

such and not on the attributes of the incumbent

individuals who occupy these positions.

Position and relationship are inseparable aspects of a

unitary structural phenomenon - the social network.


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Social network analysis:

Set of objects and set of relations among these objects.

By mathematically manipulating these network

representations, the structural analyst could uncover the

forms and processes of social and political behavior.

Structural perspective:

The structure of relations among actors and the location

of individual actors in the network have important

behavioral, perceptual and attitudinal consequences both

for the individual units and for the system as a whole

(Knoke and Kuklinski, 1982:13)


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Form and contents of relations among social

positions have significant consequences for the

formation of political attitudes and behaviors.

Explanation of the distribution of power among actors as

a function of the positions they occupy in one or more

networks.

A positions power emerges from its prominence innetworks where valued valued information and resources

are transferred.

Direct and indirect connections are considered.

Centrality and prestige.


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Analysis of power relations should not conflate

influence and domination linkages.

Communication is the main process.

Information exchanges empower an actor by giving it data

on conditions, threats and opportunities.

Flexibility and strength of structural analysis ofpower lie in its dualistic microanalysis and

macroanalysis capabilities.

E.g. Individual actors could be grouped together to form

another sociogram point as an organization.


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Philippine State Formation Mechanics

Prospects of Social Network Analysis inPhilippine Politics

POLSC 251: Seminar in Philippine Political Institutions

http://olimould.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/network-diagram-1.jp

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